commonality

A quality that applies to materiel or systems: a. possessing like and interchangeable characteristics enabling each to be utilized, or operated and maintained, by personnel trained on the others without additional specialized training; b. having interchangeable repair parts and/or components; and c. applying to consumable items interchangeably equivalent without adjustment.

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commonality — com‧mon‧al‧i‧ty [ˌkɒməˈnælti ǁ ˌkɑː ] noun [uncountable] MANUFACTURING when different products use the same parts in their production: • They will try to keep the proportion of common components as high as 90%, and this commonality could save… … Financial and business terms

commonality — com mon*al i*ty n. 1. the sharing of common attributes. Syn: commonness. [WordNet 1.5] 2. a characteristic held in common; a common feature. [PJC] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

commonality — late 14c., a community, from COMMON (Cf. common) (q.v.), as if from L. *communalitas. A respelling of commonalty (late 13c.). Meaning the common people is attested from 1580s; that of state or quality of being shared is from 1954 … Etymology dictionary

commonality — [käm΄ən al′ə tē] n. [ME communaltie &LT; OFr communalté: see COMMUNAL & TY1] 1. the common people; commonalty 2. a sharing as of common features or characteristics … English World dictionary

Commonality — Southwest Airlines has operated a pure Boeing 737 fleet since 1971, operating nearly every variant of the type. Aviation commonality describes the economic and logistic benefits of operating a standardized fleet of aircraft that share common… … Wikipedia

commonality — [[t]kɒmənæ̱lɪti[/t]] commonalities N VAR: oft N of n Commonality is used to refer to a feature or purpose that is shared by two or more people or things. [FORMAL] We don t have the same commonality of interest... I m going to look at some of the… … English dictionary

commonality — commonalty com mon*al*ty, commonality com mon*al i*ty, n.; pl. {Commonalties}. [OF. communalt[ e]; F. communaut[ e], fr. communal. See {Communal}.] 1. The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

commonality — noun (plural commonalities) 1》 the state of sharing features or attributes. ↘a shared feature or attribute. 2》 (the commonality) another term for commonalty … English new terms dictionary

commonality — /kɒmənˈæləti/ (say komuhn aluhtee) noun that which is common, shared or usual: the commonality of human experience teaches us to be more cautious as we age … Australian English dictionary